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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Create with Cheryl

Thought I'd share some scrapbook pages I've done over the last couple of days (yay! I scrapped!) and share a few more of the poems I wrote, but first--how was your weekend?

Ours was good. And, even though we did lots of stuff, it didn't seem near as hectic as usual. (In fact, right now it's a Sunday afternoon and I'm able to pop on the computer...which means, it's absolutely not been as hectic!)

McKenna had color guard tryouts and made it for the third year in a row (she is hoping to either be captain or co-captain this year, and she's excited about the squad they've got coming in); Delaney's school softball team came in third in the county tournament (there were 11 teams and one particular team was really dominating and impossible to beat, but HMS put on a really good showing!); Sydney and I went and watched the Hannah Montana movie all by ourselves (which was really nice); and I actually had time to finish the latest mystery I'm reading and cook a good Sunday dinner. So, it was very nice...

Now, how about some of my scrapbook pages?

Here's a fun one I did with two pictures of Delaney being silly on the day of her school pageant this past November (yep, I'm still way behind!)...And I decided to make a mini-album with my favorite pictures from the pageant as well (I really love mini albums, and this one went in with the others in my "mini album basket"). I bought a cute and cheap clasped photo album from Hobby Lobby, then added pictures, a few embellishments, and some journaling. Just super duper easy...Then I actually got to work on some Christmas photos. I did two layouts; one I titled "anticipation" and it has two of my favorite pictures from the season, as Sydney stood on the side of the road during our Christmas parade and waited for Santa Claus to make his appearance...And the other had some pictures from our family gathering with our friend, Raymond. You'll remember that Raymond lost his Mom before the holidays and we took it upon ourselves to make his Christmas as special and "normal" as at all possible. My journaling says that "true joy" really only comes from serving and loving others...And then I had to go back and do a page of Delaney playing volleyball (again, back in the Fall). Even though the sport was new to her, she just fell in love with volleyball...And then this was just a super-easy simple layout that I wanted to create to focus primarily on the picture, which is probably my most favorite recent one. The moment captured in this photo just reminds me that it's the simple times shared with those I love that make life worthwhile...I am in the middle of several more layouts, and also two mini albums (one from Sydney's Christmas play, and one of last year's awesome Bama football season), so I hope to share those with you soon as well.

And now, how about a few poems to complete this "creative" post?

I've been doing the poems over at the Poem-a-Day-Challenge, so I thought I'd share a few of my favorites from the last week.

One of the day's challenges was to write about a specific memory...

singing on the way to school:1975

Puff, pooh, and stewballthe racehorse

Lyrics, melodies,happy tunessung in the caras morning brokewith Dadon the way to school

The Byrds singing aboutpurple heatherCat singing aboutthe wild world

My world felt perfect,content, free,easy as a bird flyingseamlessly in the bluesky above

with Dad’s voice,and my small onemingling together

Another day's challenge was to write a poem that included the phrase, "So we decided to"...

so we decided to

the day yawned,my feet resting,outstretchedon the window sillof that littleredcoupe.

the wind whistled,my hand resting,intertwinedon the gear shiftof that littleredcoupe

the minutes stretched,the highway stretched,

so we decidedto take thelongwayhome.

One more challenge was to write a poem based on a color...

Purple

hazebruiserain

And the skyat thatsymbiotic momentwhen day andnightjoin.

And your eyesat thatsame juncture

clouded,changedbydreams,love

go frombluetopurple

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I'd love to hear what you've been up to (have any of you been creative as well?), and I'm going to be popping by as many of your blogs as possible.

Love all the scrapping ideas, Cheryl. I think my favorite page is the one with you and Scout, but they're all awesome. How sweet of you to be a 2nd family to Raymond. Though you're right--I'm sure you're being blessed, too.

Did your girls ever try a sport they didn't like? Just wonderin';)

Looking forward to being creative as soon as we do a bit more clean up/organizing after the carpet was installed. We're trying to go thru every last thing to keep, pitch, or give, and it's making the whole process tedious. But I know it's all good in the end.

Gretchen--Thanks for your sweet compliments. And really...what I need to be doing right now is what you're doing (cleaning, decluttering, and organizing). Maybe this week I can get motivated to do some of that!

Okay, amazing woman. Just how do you manage it all? This was a great post. I think I remember the pics of Sydney at the Christmas Parade. I am so loving your mini albums. I plan to do more too. I still have my Grand Canyon album to tackle.

The poetry is great. I especially like the one about taking the long way home.

I was also looking back to your Easter post. Your church looks pretty large. What is the name of the church? I'm considering another church, and always like to hear when one is satisfied with their own.

Heather--Thanks!!!! It makes me feel good to finally scrap; I'm hoping to actually do some more tomorrow.

Anon--Thanks! Hope your Monday was good too. :-)

Kathy--It was one of the most laid-back Sundays I can remember. And tonight we actually didn't have anywhere to go either...I have to stop and appreciate those days when we get them. :-)

Hippo--I really love doing mini albums. They are much more practical to get done when life is busy. And thanks about my poems.

Ed--Thanks!! You're an other one of those inspiring scrappers out there; I'm always amazed at how much you get done!

Kayla--I'll come by your blog and give you the details on my church. You know...there is no perfect church. But we really do like ours; we have a good group of really laid-back friends that really makes it nice.

I've been seriously LOVINIG mini albums, too! Such a quick and fun way to tell a story without feeling like you have to invest a dozen hours on the project. I LOVED every one of the pages and pictures you shared here! So darling all of them! I loved the volleyball pages as well! I have so many pics of Sabrina playing basketball and I am so terribly behind on scrapbooking those! You just inspired me to get moving, LOL.